Two questions

[Wynd]

1. If I have these headers:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
#inclue <stdlib.h>

will this make my .exe file huge? I included these and compiled it in release mode optimized for size and it is 152 kb or some such.

2. Is there a way to input a string in C (not C++) with spaces in it?

[parksie]

1. Including the string template brings a large proportion of the iostreams code in as well. I don't think stdlib.h has much effect though. Set your linker options to emit a map file and then look at that in WordPad.

2. scanf?

[Wynd]

What am I looking for? The mapfile is 247 kb.

[parksie]

Zip & Attach it and I'll give you a mini-analysis

[Wynd]

Btw, scanf doesn't work, but gets does.

[parksie]

OK. It's included all the locale-handling code which basically brought the ENTIRE IOStream library in. It's all referenced in the mapfile (mangled names )

[Wynd]

I rewrote it using C functions and the release-mode optimized-for-size .exe turned out to be 36 kb. Why are C++ .exe's so much bigger than ones in C?

[parksie]

C++ has a lot more overhead with certain things. For example, IOStreams is a whole library, whereas C just has struct FILE pointers, and raw file handles.